EXCUSE ME. Christie ran for office promising to improve the business picture in New Jersey. New Jersey is still 5th from the bottom in friendliness to businesses. He has done NOTHING to reduce state mandates on businesses.
Aside from taming the state civil service unions - sort of - the Teachers and Law Enforcement unions are STILL running rough shod over taxpayer dollars and the are the most egregious culprits - he has been a dismal failure.
If Christie is the best New Jersey can hope for, we are the equivalent of a third world nation and he is Papa Doc.
Let's see - Tom Keane, Jim Florio, Christine "Witless" Whitman, Jimmy "The Gay-American" McGreevey and John Corzine represent 30 years of mismanagement and you think anyone (Christie included) can reverse all that that in one term?
While I agree with your premise (i don't think Christie is so great), I think it would take a fundamental sea-change in Trenton to undo what we've seen happen here since 1980.
I also tend to agree that we are, in-fact a "third-world" nation in this cesspool of a state.